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A66701	The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt; together with The countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. Country-man's guide. aut.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3070; ESTC R222284	116,837	246

ground remaining a deep pit August 4. Anno 1584. At the end of the Town call'd Nottingham in Kent eight miles from London the ground began to sink three great Elms being swallowed up and driven into the Earth past mans sight March 17. 1586. A strange thing happened Mr. Dorrington of Spaldwick in the County of Huntington Esquire had a Horse which dyed suddenly and being ripped up to see the cause of his death there was found ●n a hole of the heart of the Horse a Worm of a wondrous form it lay on a round heap ●n a Kall or Skin in the likeness of a Toad which being taken out and spreed abroad was in form and fashion not easie to be described the length of which worm divided into many grains to the number of eighty spread from the body like the branches of a Tree was from the snout to the end of the longest grain seventeen inches having four Issues in the grains from whence dropped forth a red water The body in bigness round about was three inches and a half the colour was very like the colour of a Maycril This monstrous worm crawling about to have got away was stabbed in with a dagger and so died which after being dryed was shown to many persons of account for a great rarity Sunday December 5. in the thirty eighth year of Queen Elizabeths Reign a great number of people being assembled in the Cathedral Church of Wells in Sommersetshire in the Sermon time before noon a sudden darkness fell among them and storm and tempest follow'd after with lightning and thunder such as overthrew to the ground them that were in the body of the Church and all the Church seemed to be on a ligat fire a loathsome stench followed some stones were stricken out of the Bell-Tower the Wyers and Irons of the Clock were melted which tempest being ceased and the people come again to themselves some of them were found to be marked with strange figures on their bodies and their garments not perished nor any marked that were in the Chancel How daily ought we then for to pray thus From Lightning and Tempest Lord deliver us Anno 1604. in the Reign of King James John Lepton of Kepwick in the county of York Esquire a Gentleman of an ancient Family and of good reputation his Majesties Servant and one of the Grooms of his most honourable privy Chamber performed so memorable a journey as deserves to be recorded to future ages because many Gentlemen who were good Horse-men and divers Physicians did affirm it was impossible for him to do without apparent danger of his life He undertook to ride five several times betwixt London and York in six dayes to be taken in one week betwixt Munday morning and Saturday night He began his journey upon munday being the 26 of May in the year aoresaid betwixt two and three of the Clock n● the morning forth of Saint Martins near Aldersgate within the City of London and came to York the same day betwixt the hours of five and six in the afternoon where he rested that night The next morning being Tuesday about three of the clock he took his journey forth of York and came to his lodging in Saint Martins aforesaid betwixt the hours of six and seven in the afternoon where he rested that night The next morning being Wednesday betwixt two and three of the clock he took his journey forth of London and came into York about seven of the clock the same day where he rested that night the next morning being Thursday betwixt two and three of the Clock he took his journey forth of York and came to London the same day betwixt seven and eight of the clock where he rested that night the next morning being Fryday betwixt two and three of the clock he ●ook his journey towards York and came thither the same day betwixt the hours of seven and eight in the afternoon so as he finished his appointed journey to the admiration of all men in five days according to his promise and upon Munday the seven and twentieth of the same Moneth he went from York and came to the Court at Greenwich upon Tuesday the 28. to his Majesty in as fresh and cheerful manner as when he first began Anno 1608. in the fifth year of King James upon the 19. of February when it should have been low water at London-Bridge quite contrary to course it was then high water and presently it ebbed almost half an hour the quantity of a foot and then suddenly it flowed again almost two foot higher than it did before and then ebbed again until it came to its course almost as it was at first so that the next flood began in a manner as it should and kept its due course in all respects as if there had been no shifting nor alteration of Tydes all this happened before twelve a clock in the forenoon the water being indifferent calm And now we are come to our own memory viz. the Reign of King Charles the First in which we find that there was a Fish taken and sold in Cambridge Market which had in its belly a book of an ancient print part whereof was consumed but enough left to be legibly read as you may find in Mr. Hammond Lestrange his History of King Charles the first The wonder of his time old Thomas Parre a Shropshire man who attained to the age of 152 years and odd months being afterwards brought up to the Court as a miracle of nature but having changed his air and dyet he soon after dyed and was buried in Westminster Abbey The Woman at Oxford which was condemned upon a supposed crime having hanged a good space and being by the Soldiers knockt divers times on the breast with the but-end of their Muskets to put her the sooner out of her pain yet afterwards when she was cut down and ready to be Anatomized there was life perceived in her and by applying some things unto her she recover'd her memory and senses was afterwards found guiltless of the fact married and had three or four children June the second Anno 1657. a Whale of a prodigious bulk being sixty foot in length and of a proportionable bigness was cast on shore not far from Green-wich which was lookt upon to be a great presage of some wonderful matters soon after to ensue and indeed the event proved it to be true for not long after Cromwel full sore against his will in a great wind was hurryed away into another World The last but not the least wonder is of one Martha Taylor hear to Packwel in Darbyshire who from Saint Thomas day in the year ● four Lord 1667. to the present writing hereof being the 11. day of January 1668. hath not asted any sustenance in all that time she ●s still living and audible to be heard but more like an anatomy or Picture of death than ● living creature Qu. What other wonders are there to be

Earldoms of Guyen and Poictou by Elbiner his wife and a great part of Ireland by conquest towards the latter end of his Reign he was much troubled with the unnatural Rebellion of his Sons He dyed the sixth day of July Anno 1189. and Reigned twenty four years and seven months lacking eleven days Richard the first for his valor and magnanimous courage sirnamed Coeur de Lion he with a most puissant Army warred in the Holy-Land where by his acts he made his name very famous overcoming the Turks in several Battels whom he had almost driven out of Syria he also took the Isle of Cyprus which he afterwards exchanged for the Title of King of Jerusalem after many worthy atchievements performed in those Eastern parts returning homewards to defend Normandy and Aquitain against the French he was by a Tempest cast upon the Coast of Austria where he was taken prisoner and put to a most grievous Ransom finally he was slain at the siege of Chaluz in France by a shot from an Arbalist the use of which warlike Engine he first shewed to the French whereupon a French Poet made these Verses in the person of Antropos Hoc volo non alia Richardum marte perire Ut qui Francigenis Balistae primitus usum Tradidit ipse sui rem primitus experiatur Quamque aliis docuit in se enim sentiat artis It is decreed thus must great Richard die As he that first did teach the French to dart An Arbalist 't is just he first should try The strength and taste the Fruits of his own Art In his days lived those Outlaws Robin Hood Little John c. King John next succeeded or rather usurped the Crown his eldest Brothers Son Arthur of Britain being then living He was an unnatural Son to his Father and an undutiful subject to his Brother neither sped he better in his own Reign the French having almost gotten his Kingdom from him who on the Popes curse came to subdue it with whom joyned many of his Subjects by which the Land was brought to much misery Finally after a base submission to the Popes Legat he was poysoned by a Monk at Sw●nested-Abby after he had reigned seventeen years and five months lacking eight days and lyeth buried at Worcester Henry the third Son to King John against whom the rebellious Barons strongly warred yet however he expelled the intruding French out of England confirmed the Statutes of Magna Charta and having reigned fifty six years and twenty eight days was buried at Westminster of which Church he built a great part Edward the first sirnamed Long-shanks who warred in the Holy-Land where he was at the time of his Fathers death a most Heroick magnanimous Prince he awed France subdued Wales and brought Scotland into subjection disposing of the Crown thereof according to his pleasure he brought from thence the Regal Chair still reserved in Westminster-Abby he was a right vertuous and fortunate Prince Reigned thirty four years seven months and odd days and lyeth buried at Westminster Edward the second a most dissolute Prince hated of his Nobles and contemned by the vulgar for his immeasurable love to Pierce Gaveston and the two Spencers on whom he bestowed most of what his Father had purchased with his Sword as one writeth in these Verses Did Longshanks purchase with his conquering hand Albania Gascoyn Cambria Ireland That young Carnarvon his unhappy Son Should give away all that his Father won He having Reigned nineteen years six months and odd days was deposed and Edward his eldest Son Crowned King Edward the third that true pattern of vertue and valor was like a rose out of a Bryar an excellent Son of an evil Father he brought the Scots again to a formal obedience who had gained much on the English in his Fathers life time laid claim to the Crown of France in right of his Mother and in pursuance of his Title gave the French two great overthrows taking their King prisoner with divers others of the chief Nobility he took also that strong and almost impregnable Town of Callice with many other fair possessions in that Kingdom Reigned fifty years four months and odd days and was buried at Westminster Richard the second Son to Edward the black Prince the eldest Son of King Edward the third an ungovern'd and dissolute King He rejected the sage advice of his Grave Counsellors was most ruled by his own self-will'd passions lost what his Father and Grand-father had gained and at last his own life to the Lancastrian faction in his time was that famous or rather infamous rebellion of Wat Taylor and Jack Straw He having Reigned twenty two years three months and odd days was deposed and murdered at Pomfret Castle Henry the fourth Son to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster third Son to Edward the third obtained the Crown more by force than by lawful succession he was a wise prudent Prince but having gotten the Crown unjustly was much troubled with insurrection of of the subjects which he having quieted surrendred to fate having reigned thirteen years six months and odd days and was buried at Canterbury Henry the fifth who from a dissolute vicious Prince became the mirror of Kings and pattern of all Heroick performance he pursued his Title to the Crown of France bear the French at Agin Court and was in a Parliament of their Nobility Clergy and Commons ordained Heir apparent to the French Crown but lived not to possess it dying in the full carrier of his victories at Vincent Boys in France and was brought over into England and buried at Westminster He Reigned nine years five months and odd days Henry the sixth sirnamed of Windsor his birth-place of whom it was prophesied that What Henry of Monmouth had won which was his Father Henry of Windsor should lose He was a very pious Prince and upheld his State during the life of his Unkles John Duke of Bedford and Humphrey of Glocester after whose deaths the Nobility growing factious he not only lost France to the French but England and his life to the Yorkish faction He having reigned thirty eight years was overthrown by Edward Earl of March descended by the Mothers side from Lionel Duke of Clarence second Son to King Edward the third was arrested and sent to the Tower where within a while after he was murdered and buried at Cherlsey since removed to Windsor Edward the fourth a prudent politick Prince He after nine bloody Battels especially that of Tawton in which were slain of the English thirty six thousand on both sides was at last quietly seated in his dominions of England and Ireland Reigned twenty two years one month and odd days and was buried at Windsor Edward the fifth his Son a King proclaimed but before his Coronation was murdered in the Tower Richard the third brother to Edward the fourth was Crowned King ascending to the same by steps of blood murdering King Henry the sixth and Prince Edward his Son 3.

Dagobert the first build a Church in the place where he was buried for so it happened that this Dagobert during the life of Clotoyre the second his Father had cruelly slain Sadrasegille h●● Governor To avoid the fury of his Father much incensed with that Unprincely action he was compelled to wander up and down France hungry and thirsty In this miserable condition coming to the Sepulchre of S● Denis he laid him down and slept when there appeared to him an old man with a staff i● his hand who told him that his Father wa● dead and that he should be King and desired him that when it came so to pass he would build a Church there in the honour of St. Denis which Dagobert coming to be King accordingly did and a Bishop was sent for i● all haste to bless it But it hapned the night before the Bishops coming that there cam● to the Town an ugly Leper who desired to lie in the Church And when he was ther● about twelve a clock at night our Saviour came into the Church in white Garments and with him the Apostles Angels and Martyrs with most delicious Musick And then Christ blessed the Church and bid the Leper tel● the Bishop that the Church was already blessed and for a token of it he gave the Lep●● his health who on the next morning wa● found to be sound and perfectly whole The Legend of Saint Romain SAint Romain was Bishop of Roven i● France It happened that in his time there was a poysonous Dragon which had done much harm to all the country thereabouts many ways had been tryed to destroy him but none prospered at last Romain being then Bishop of the Town undertook to do it and accompanied onely with a Thief and a Murtherer he marched towards the place where the Dragon lay upon sight of the Dragon the Thief stole away but the Murderer went on and saw the Holy man vanquish the Serpent and onely with a Stole ● which is a neck habit sanctified by his Holiness of Rome and made much after the manner of a Tippet with this stole tyed about the neck of the Dragon doth the Murderer ●ead him prisoner to Roven the people much admiring at the same highly extolling the Bishop pardoned the Murderer and burned the Dragon to ashes In memory of this marvellous act King Dagobert the first who Reigned in France Anno 632 granted unto Andoin or Owen successor to St. Romain that from that time forwards the Chapitre of the Cathedral Church of Roven should every Ascension day have the faculty of delivering ●ny Malefactor whom the Laws had condemned This that King then granted and all the following Kings even to this time have successively confirmed it Of Saint Dunstan SAint Dunstan was Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the time of Etheldred the Saxon King he was according to the opinion of these times of great sanctity of life being ● sleep one day in the Church he dreamed some thing of the Devil whereupon he ran about pursuing him even to the top of the Church and came down again in his sleep without any hurt At another time the Devil came to tempt him in the likeness of a beautiful Damosel but St. Dunstan caught up a pair of tongs being red hot and therewith so pincht the Devil by the Nose a● quite spoiled his countenance and for ever taking Tobacco throw the nose again He also coming once into a Gentlemans house where were several Instruments hanging up against the Wall at his entrance in they of their own accord fell on playing It is reported of him that when he Christened King Ethelred the child with his ordure defiled the Fount whereupon Sr. Dunstan said By Gods Holy Mother this Child if he live will prove a sloathful person which accordingly came to Pass the Danes in his time over-running England This Saint Dunstan flourishing about the year of our Lord 978. Of Thomas Becket THomas Becket was the Son of one Gilbert Becket which Gilbert being taken prisoner among the Sarazens the Kings daughter of that countrey fell in love with him gained his liberty and came over into England where she was baptiz'd in the Church of S. Paul and married to this Gilbert who upon her begot this Thomas afterwards made Arch-bishop of Canterbury by King Henry th● second in which place he behaved himself very high as well against the King as against the Nobles nor was he it seems much beloved of the Commons for coming one day into Town in Kent the people cut off his Horse tail whereupon the Children of that Count for a long time after as the Legend reports were born with long tails like Horses he was at last slain in his Cathedral Church of Canterbury by four Knights and after his death by the Pope Canonized for aSaint Many miracles are said to be by him performed as namely how a fellow for stealing a Whetstone was deprived of his eyes but praying to St. Thomas he had his sight again restored nay a Bird flying out of a Cage and being pursued by a Hawk and ready to be seized on the Bird crying out only Saint Thomas help me the Hawk immediately fell down dead and the Bird escaped His Tomb was afterwards much enriched with costly gifts and visited by Pilgrims from all places according to what we find in Chaucer From every Shires end Of England do they wend The Holy blissful Martyrs Tomb to seek Who hath them holpen wherein they beseke JESTS A new way to know the Father of a Child A Wench that lived in a Knights service was gotten with child and brought to bed of a goodly Boy before it was publickly known in the house after her uprising being examined before a Justice of the Peace to know who was the Father of the child she said she could not tell well her self for there was two of the Knights servants that had to do with her about the same time whereof one was a Welsh man the other an English man one of them she said was the father but which of the two she was not certain This doubtful case put the Justice in a great quandary upon which of them to lay the charge of bringing up the child but the Clerk said he would soon decide the controversie whose the child was and thereupon went into the Kitchen and toasted a bit of Cheese and then brought it and offer'd it the child putting it to his mouth which made the Child to cry refusing it as much as it could Whereupon the Clerk said upon my life the Welshman is not the father of it for if he were it would have eaten toasted cheese at a day old The King of Swedens Goose THe King of Swethland coming to a town of his enemies with a very little company they to slight his force did hang out a Goose for him to shoot at but perceiving before night that these few soldiers had invaded and set their chiefest Holds on fire they demanded

may not do rightly understand the ways of God A. 1 Dead men who neither do nor can understand his ways 2 Wicked men who may but care not to understand them 3 Fools who desire but have not the apprehension to do it 4 The godly who both understand and practise the same Q. How many sorts of Fasts are used in the world A. Six The sick mans Fast the poor mans Fast the misers Fast the gluttons Fast the hypocrites Fast and the godly mans Fast all which are set down in these following Verses Experience out of Observation says Six sorts of people keep their Fasting days Which if you will in order have them shown Then thus they are distinguisht every one The sick man fasts because he cannot eat The poor man fasts because he wanteth meat The miser fasts with greedy mind to spare The glutton fasts to eat a greater share The hypocrite he fasts to seem more holy The righteous man to punish sinful folly Q. Who be those that lye most freely and without controul A. 1. Great men that few dare reprove 2. Old men that few can gain-say 3. Poets who do it Poetica Licentia 4. Travellers that may lye by authority Q. What two things are those by which many persons are quite ruined and lost both in their Estates and Reputations A. Hounds and Dice of the first of which one thus writeth It is not poor Actaeon 's case alone Hounds have devour'd more Masters sure than one And for Dice the far worse of the two it is almost an infallible fore-runner of misery accompanied with cursed swearing banning fighting and many other mischiefs attendant to it the final end of it being beggary according as one thus Writes Ludens taxillis bene respi●e quid sit in illis Spes tua res tua sors tua mors tua pendet ab illis In English He may suppose who ventureth at Dice Hope health wealth life may be lost in a trice Some to evade these reasons pretend a cunning that they have in the Art to which I answer That the more cunning any is in this Art the more wicked he is in his life and therefore I conclude that the best cast at Dice is to cast them quite away Q. What witty invention was that of him who having placed the Emperor and the Pope reconciled in their Majestick Thrones placed the States of the world before them and what was their several Motto's A. 1 A Counsellor of State had this I advise you 2 Then a Courtier with I flatter you 3 Then a Husbandman I feed you 4 Then a Merchant I match you 5 Then a Lawyer I fleece you 6 Then a Souldier I fight for you 7 Then a Physician I kill you 8 Then a Priest I absolve you all Q. Who was he that in the confusion of Tongues kept both his Language and Religion pure and unchangeable An. Heber the Father of Abraham who when all the rest of the world fell to Idolatry relapsed not from the truth but kept himself free from the impiety of Nimrod and his followers who sought to erect a Building that should reach to Heaven but could not go forward with their design being confounded with the diversity of Languages which was sent amongst them whereby one understood not the other Of which thus writeth the Divine Du Bartus Bring me quoth he a Tro●el quickly quick One brings him up a Hammer hew this Brick Another bids and then they cleave a Tree Make fast this Rope and then they let it flee One calls for Planks another Mortar lacks They bring the first a Stone the last an Ax. Q. In what place according to the opinion of some shall the General Judgment of mankind be A. In the Valley of Jehosaphat because it is said in one place of the Scripture Behold I will bring all Nations together in the Valley of Jehosaphat and plead with them there though others with more reason do think that the place as well as the time is unknown Q. Which deserves the greatest punishment the body or soul for the committting of sin A. Some are of opinion the Soul because without it the Body were nothing which actuates only what the Soul infuseth Others would have the Body as being the chief organ and actor of sin but that they are both culpable and deserve alike punishment is proved by this similitude A master committeth the charge of his Orchard to be kept by two whereof the one is blind the other lame The lame man having persect sight sees golden Apples hanging upon a Tree of which he informs the man that is blind they both covet after them notwithstanding they are forbidden and to attain their desires the blind man that was strong of his limbs takes up the seeing Cripple on his shoulders by which means they accomplish their desires pluck the Fruit and eat thereof Soon after the Master of the Orchard enters enquires and soon finds by whom it was done they were both equally culpable and so are punisht with alike punishment according as they had equally deserved In like manner both Body and Soul lending their furtherance to sin being alike guilty are inseparably punished together for ever Q. What ways did Philip King of Macedon use that he might not forget his mortality A. He had every morning a Page which used to awake him with these words Remember Sir that you are a man according as writes Philip King of Macedon Was daily ro●●s'd and call'd upon By a shrill Page whose Bonjours ran Remember Sir you are a man Q. What said the same King Philip when his Horse casting him on the ground he saw the print of his body in the dust A. See said he we covet the whole earth and how little sufficeth Q. Whether do fools profit more by wise men or wise men by fools A. Cato who himself was a wise man saith that fools are the most profitable to wise men who seeing their folly endeavour to avoid it whereas fools on the Contrary can make no profit of the wisdom of the wise by reason of their folly Q. How came Beda that ancient Father of the English Church to be called Venerabilis A. Some assign this reason that when he was old he became blind and keeping an unhappy Boy to guide him as he walked abroad this Boy one day led him to preach to a heap of stones where concluding his Sermon with Gloria Patri he was by them answered Amen Amen Venerabilis Beda Others say that at his death an unlearned Monk going about to write an Epitaph on him blunder'd thus far on a Verse Hic sunt in Fossa Bedae ossa leaving a space before the two last words and so went to bed which in the morning he found supplied by an unknown hand with the Title of Venerabilis so he made his verse and Beda got his name Q. What Persons of all others do lie in the greatest state A. Beggars who have the Heavens for their

Fuller to be therein most exquisite who is reported that he would walk any street in London and by the strength of his memory tell how many and what Signs they were hanging in that street from the one end to the other according as they were in order As also if five hundred strange names were read unto him after the second or third hearing of them he would repeat them distinctly according as they have been read unto him Qu. What difference is there betwixt Prophets and Poets An. Thus much according to the old Verse Of things to come the first true Prophets are What the other of things past do false declare Qu. What creature is that which at once brings forth nourisheth her young and goeth with young again An. The Hare that fearful but fruitful creature who is represented as the Emblem of good providence because she sleeps with her eyes open Qu. Why do men commonly deck their Houses with Ivy at Christmas An. Ivy is said to be dedicated to Bacchus the God of wine and good cheer at which time men commonly eat and drink hard as one writes At Christmas men do always Ivy get And in each corner of the House it set But why do they then use that Bacchus weed Because they mean then Bacchus like to feed Q. Who brought up the first custom of Celebrating the Twelve days in Christmas with such Feasts and Sports as are still retained in some Gentlemens houses A. The famous King Arthur one and the chief of the Worlds nine Worthies an Institution which the Scottish Writers of these late times very much blame as being a time fitter for our devotion than for our mirth Qu. What is it which being contained in its self yet from it thousands do daily spring and issue A. The Egg from which is produced Fowls Fishes Birds and Serpents Q Was the beard created before the man or the man before the beard A. This seems to be a ridiculous question for most will think that the man must needs be created before the Beard and yet we find it otherwise for all beasts were made before man was made and amongst others the bearded Goat Q Whether was the Egg or Bird first A. Some will say the Egg because all Birds are produced from the Egg but we must know that the first rank of creatures was immediately from God without secondary causes and not produced by the Egg as is since by the course of nature Q. In what part of the world is it that trees bear living Creatures A. In the Isles of Orcades in Scotland wherein grows a Tree that bears fruit like unto a Fowl which dropping down into the water becomes a living creature like to a Duck to which Mr. Cleaveland alludeth in these verses A Scot when from the Gallow-tree got loose Drops into Styx and turns a Soland Goose Q. What Custom was that observed formerly in Scotland the like whereof we hardly read be practised in any Country A. It was called Marcheta Mulieris and took its beginning as the Scottish Write say in the reign of Ewen the third who i● the fifteenth King in their Catalogue after the first Fergus This Ewen being a Prince much addicted or rather wholly given over unto lasciviousness made a Law That himself and his Successors should have the Maiden-head or first nights lodging with every woman whose Husband held Land immediately from the Crown and the Lords and Gentlemen of all them whose Husbands were their Tenants or Homagers This was it seems the Knights-service which men held their Estates by and continued till the days of Malcolme Comner who married Margaret the Sister of one Edgar Etheling at whose request he abolished this lascivious ungodly Law ordaining that in the room thereof the Tenants should pay unto their Lords a Mark in money which Tribute the Historians say is yet in force Qu. Who was the most famous whore in her time An. Corinthian Lais who exacted ten thousand Drachma's for a nights lodging which made Demosthenes to cry out Non emam tanti paenitere I will not buy repentance at so dear a rate and occasioned the old verse Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum 'T is not fit for every mans avail Unto Corinth for to sail She was afterwards for her extortions and spoiling the trade of the other petty whores set upon by a company of those strumpets and by them stoned to death as one writes of her At last a Crew of whores did set upon her A whore she was and whores to death did stone her Q. What Laws were those that were so severe and yet were kept and continued for the space of seven hundred years together A. The Laconian or the Laws of Lacedaemonia once a famous Commonwealth in Greece which Laws were compiled by Lycurgus who going a Journey bound the people by oath to observe all his Laws till he returned and being gone from thence commanded that when he was dead and buried his ashes should be cast into the Sea by this means his Laws endured for a long time in Sparta which by reason thereof flourished in great prosperiry Q. What place is it that is accounted the middle or center of the Earth A. Some say Palestine and in particular the Valley of Jehosaphat of which opinion are many of our ancient and modern Divines but some of our Historians and Poets allo● the same to Pytho or Pythia a Town in Greece of which they say that Jupiter desirous once to know the exact middle of the Earth let flie two Eagles one from the East the other from the West these Eagles meeting in this place shewed plainly that it was the Navel or mid part of the Earth Q. What are the causes of ebbing and flowing of the Sea A. Several men are of several minds Some ascribe it to the Moon who by her approaching to the South doth by her beams and influences make warm the Sea whence the rising exhalations do proceed wherewith so swelling to empty it self it floweth to the Shores and Havens but descending to the Horizon and Wane as her beams by little and little diminish the waters do fall and abate which causeth her Eddy or Ebb. Others impute it to God and his Spirit moving upon the waters moveth the waters which Iob expresses by the similitude of fire under a pot saying It is God that maketh the Sea boil like a pot which fire is taken to be partly in the saltness of the waters which in the night shows like fire and causes a moving in the same Another reason is for that the Earth hath more fire in it than water which fire lieth hid in the subterraneous stones and this fire doth partly cause the motion of the Sea an Element of it self liquid and active and subject to motion which thereto when once by this fire occasioned the precedent part is thrust forward by the subsequent Others again give this reason that the Earth being round and

than wise did undiscreetly refuse the same A short English Catechism We must believe twelve and we must do ten And pray for seven if we 'll be godly men Qu. What strange custom is that which is reported of the Muscovia women An. That they love those Husbands best which beat them most and think themselves neither lov'd nor regarded unless they be twice or thrice a day well-favourdly bang'd To this purpose there is a story reported of a German Shoemaker who travelling into this Countrey and here marrying a widow used her with all kindness that a woman could as he thought desire yet still she was discontented and the more he sought to please her the further off was from any content at last learning where the fault was and that his not beating her was the cause of her discontent he took such a vein in cudgelling her sides that in the end he killed her I suppose it would be a very hard matter to bring up this custom in England or to perswade our women that their Husbands beat them out of pure love which they bear unto them Qu. How comes it to pass that there be more women in the world than men An Some assign this reason because that women are freed from the Wars which devoureth many thousands of men few of them pass the dangers of the Sea suffer imprisonment and many other troubles and hazard of the Land to which men are incident and this they think to be a sufficient reason others there are who argue more merrily alledging that in the whole course of Nature the worst things are ever the most plentiful hence we have more Weeds than Hearbs more Lead than Silver more Crows than Partridges more Women than Men and therefore one thus merrily writes of that Sex If women were as little as they 're good A Pescod shell would make them Gown and Hood And another to the like purpose There is not one good woman to be found And if one were she merits to be crown'd Qu. Who was the first that invented Printing An. He who first taught it in Europe was one John Gutthenburg a German about the year of our Lord 1440. at Haarlem it is said to be first practised and at Menez perfected M. C. T. de officiis was the first Book which ever was printed which Copy is to this 〈◊〉 reserved in the publick Library in Frankford though many are of the opinion that the Chynoys had it long before us who print not as we use from the left hand to the right nor as the Jews from the right to the left but from the top of the leaf downward to the bottom whoever invented it no question but it is a most noble and profitable Art we having that done in one day by one man that without it many could not do in a year by writing Only I wish this most exquisite invention were not so much abus'd and prostituted to the lust of every foolish and idle Paper-blurrer the treasury of Learning being never so overcharg'd with froth and scum of foolish and unnecessary Discourses as by this means many people having a great ambition to be known in the world though they get nothing thereby but only to become Fools in print Qu. Who invented Guns An. That fatal Instrument the Gun was first found out by one Bartholdus Swart a Franciscan Fryer and a great Alchymist who being one time very studious to find out some experiments in his Art was tempering together Brimstone dryed Earth and certain other Ingredients in a Mortar which he covered with a stone The night growing on he took a Tinder-box to light him a candle where striking fire a spark by chance flew into the Mortar and catching hold of the Brimstone and Salt-petre with great violence blew up the stone The Fryer guessing which of his Ingredients it was that produced this effect made him an Iron pipe crammed it with Sulpher and stones and putting fire to it saw with what great fury and noise it discharged its self then longing to put his invention in execution he communicated the same unto the Venetians who having been often vanquished by the Gensuese and driven almost to a necessity of yielding to them by the help of these Guns gave their enemies a notable overthrow This was about the year of our Lord 1330. being the first battel that ever those warlike pieces had part in which not long after put to silence all the Engins and devices where with the Ancients were wont to make their Batteries of which Engine we may say as the Poet formerly did of that weapon the Sword Of murdering Guns who might first Author be Sure a steel heart and bloody mind had he Mankinds destruction so to bring about And death with horrour by near ways find out Qu. Where was wild-fire invented An. At the siege of Canstantinople by Caliph Zulciman about the year of our Lord 730. with which the Grecians did not a little molest the Saracens Ships This fire we for the violence of it call Wild-fire and the Latins because the Greeks were the inventers of it Graecus ignis Qu. Who invented the Battle-Axe An. Penthesilea who came with a troop of brave Virago's to the aid of Priam King of Troy she fought with the Battle-Axe and was slain by Pyrrhus Son to Achilles not long after her death was Troy taken by the Greeks who lost of their own men 860000. and slew of the Trojans and those that came to help them 666000. so as that of Ovid may be truly inferred Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit resecandaque falce Luxuriat Phrygio sanguine pinguis humus Corn sit for siches now grows where Troy once stood And the Soyl's fatted with he Phrygian blood Qu. By whom were the games of Dice and Chess first invented An. By the Lydians a Countrey of Anatolia who being sorely vext with famine invented the games that by playing at them they might beguile their hungry bellies Necessity thereunto informing according to that of Persius Artis Magister ingeniique largitor venter Qu. Who were the first Inventers of Paper and Parchment An. Paper was first found out in Aegypt and made of thin Flakes of Sedgy-weeds growing on the banks of Nilus called Papyri from whence it tooks it name By means of this invention Books being easier to be transcribed and reserved Ptolomeus Philadelphus made his excellent Library at Alexandria and understanding how Attalus King of Pergamum by the benefit of this Aegyptian Paper strived to exceed him in that kind of magnificence prohibited the carriage of it out of Aegypt Hereupon Attalus invented Parchment called from the place of its invention Pergamena from the materials thereof being Sheep-skins Membrana the conveniency whereof was the cause why in short time the Aegyptian Paper was quite worn out in place whereof succeeded our Paper made of rags The Author of which invention our progenitors have not committed to memory the more is the pity that he

An. They are of the same Tenets with the Graecians excepting only that that they celebrate Divine Service as solemnly on the Saturday as the Sunday They take their denomination from Melchi which in the Syriac● signifieth a King because in matters of Religion the people followed the Emperors Injunctions and were of the Kings Religion a● the saying is Qu. What Sect of Christians are those calles Maranites An. They are a People found onely in Moun● Libanus their Patriarch is alwayes called Peter he hath under his jurisdiction nine Bishops and resideth commonly at Tripolis They held heretofore divers opinions with the Graecians but in the Papacy of Clement the eighth they received the Roman Religion which they do still adhere to Qu. What different Tenets are those of the Armenian Christians from the rest of their Neighbours An. Four 1. In receiving Infants to the Lords Table immediately after Baptism 2. In abstaining from unclean Beasts 3. In fasting on Christmas-day 4. In holding their Children over the fire as a necessary circumstance in Baptism because John the Baptist told the people which followed him that Christ should Baptise them with the Spirit and with fire This Sect is very numerous and is governed by two Patriarchs whereof the one hath under his jurisdiction all Turcomania a great Province in Armenia the greater comprehending 150000 Families besides very many Monasteries and the other hath under him the two Provinces of Armenia the lesser and Cilicia comprehending 20000 Families or thereabouts Qu. What are those Christians called Georgians An. They are the inhabitants of Georgia and consent in most Doctrinal points with the Grecians onely they acknowledge not the Patriarch of Constantinople but have a Patriarch of their own who is for the most part resident in his house on Mount Sinai in Palestina and hath under his jurisdiction eighteen Bishops Qu. What were the different opinions of the Indian Christians before such time they imbraced the Doctrine of the Church of Rome An. 1. To administer the Sacrament with bread season'd with salt 2. In stead of Wine to use the iuice of Raisons softned in water one night and so dressed forth 3. Not to baptize their children till forty days old unless in danger of death 4. To permit no Images in their Churches but of the Cross onely 5. To debar their Priests from second marriages And sixthly to paint God with three heads on one body denoting thereby the Trinity Qu. Wherein do the Copties or Christians of Egypt differ from other Christians An. In these four particulars 1. They confer all sacred orders under the Priesthood upon Infants immediately after Baptism their Parents till they come to sixteen years of age performing their office for them 2. They allow marriage in the second degree of Consanguinity without any dispensation 3. They observe not the Lords-day nor any other Festivals but onely in the Cities 4. They embrace and read in their Liturgies a Gospel written as they say by Nicodemus Qu. What special Sects were amongst the Jews An. These four Scribes Pharisees Essenes and Sadduces Qu. What were the Scribes An. Their office was double first to read and expound the Law in the Temple and Synagogues and secondly to execute the office of a Judge in ending and composing actions Qu. What were the Pharisees An. The Pharisees owe their name to Phares which signifieth both interpretari separare as being both interpreters of the Law and Separatists from the rest of the Jewish Church besides the Pentateuch or five Books of Moses they adhered also to traditions They denyed the sacred Trinity and held the fulfilling of the Law to consist in the outward Ceremonies They relyed more on their own merits than Gods mercy attributing most things to destiny and refused commerce with Publicans and Sinners Qu. What were the Essenes An. The Essenes had their name from Ascha that is facere because they wrought with their hands They lived together as it were in Colledges and in it every one had their Chappel for their devotion All their estates they enjoyed in common and received no man into their fellowship unless he would give all that he had into their Treasury and not then under a three years probationership Qu. What were the Sadduces An. The Sadduces received their Name from Sedec●● which signifieth Justice They believed not the being of Angels or Spirits the resurrection of the body nor that there was a Holy Ghost and received for Scripture onely the Pentateuch or five books of Moses Qu. Wherein doth 〈◊〉 Fundamentals of the Mahumetan Religion consist An. The whole is delivered in the book of their Religion called the Alcoran and is but an Exposition and Gloss of these eight Commandments 1. Every one ought to believe that God is a great God and onely God and Mahomet is his Prophet 2. Every man must marry to encrease the Sectaries of Mahomet 3. Every one must give of his wealth to the poor 4. Every one must make his prayers five times in a day 5. Every one must keep a Lent one month in the Year 6. Be obedient to thy parents 7. Thou shalt not kill 8. Do unto others as thou wouldest be done unto thy self Many other Injunctions he laid upon them as forbidding them Wine and the eating of Swines-flesh Fryday he ordained to be the Sabbath day to distinguish his Followers from Jews and Christians who solemnize the days following To those who observed his Religion and faithfully kept his Laws he promised Paradise spread here and there with Silk Carpets adorned with verdant flowery Fields watered with Christaline Rivers and beautified with trees of Gold and Arbors of pleasure in whose cool shade they shall spend their time with amorous Virgins whose mansion shall not be far distant The men shall never exceed the age of thirty years nor the women of fifteen and both shall have their Virginities renewed as fast as lost Thus whereas men no knowledge have within them This was the onely way to take to win them A carnal heart minds onely sordid pleasure And never looketh after Heavenly Treasure Many idle ridiculous Opinions do they hold concerning the end of the world that at the winding of a Horn not all flesh only but the Angels themselves shall die That the Earth with an Earthquake shall be kneaded together lke a lump of Dough That a second blast of the same Horn shall after forty days restore all again That Cain shall be the Captain or Ring-leader of the Damned who shall have the countenances of Dogs and Swine That they shall pass over the Bridge of Justice laden with their sins in Satchels that the greater sinners shall fall into Hell the lesser into Purgatory only That all those who professed and practised any Religion should go into Paradise the Jews under the Banner of Moses the Christians under the Banner of Christ And that himself should be metamorphosed into a great Ram and all those of his followers into little fleas

who should shroud themselves in his long fleece when he would jump into Heaven and so convey them all thither With a thousand of the like fopperies Qu. Which Heretick in his time had the most followers An. Arius a priest of Alexandria who hatched that devilish Doctrine against the perpetual Divinity of Christ to beat down which Heresie the first Council of Nice was called wherein was made the Nicene Creed and the Clause of one substance with the Father proved to be agreeable to the Word Constantine being then Emperor sent for Arius to subscribe to the Decrees of this Council who went to Constantinople with his own heretical Tenets written in a paper and put into his bosom where reading before the Emperor the Decrees of the Council he writ a Recantation of his Heresie laying his hand on his breast and swearing he meant as he had written but though thereby he blinded the Emperor God manifested his hypocrisie for passing in great triumph through the streets of the City a necessity of Nature enforcing him he withdrew aside into a House of Ease where he voided out his Guts and sent his soul as a Harbinger to the Devil to provide room for his body However his Heresie died not with him but overspread so far that one of the Fathers complained The whole world is turned Arian And long time it was ere this Serpent of Error was knocked on the head by the Hammer of Gods Word though very powerful then in the mouths of many faithful Ministers Many other Heresies might be reckon'd up which were frequent in the primitive times as the Nicholaitans Donatists c. but we descend to speak of some more modern Qu. Who was the first that broached that ridiculous Schism of the Adamites An. One Picardus a Native of Belgia or the Low Countreys who coming into Bohemia drew a great sort of men and women unto him pretending to bring them to the same state of perfection that Adam was in before his fall and having gotten a great many disciples they betook themselves to an Island called Paradise and went stark naked having no respect unto marriage yet would they not accompany any woman until the man coming to Adam said unto him Father Adam I am enflamed towards this woman and Adam made answer Increase and multiply But long they had not lived in this lascivious course of Irreligion but Zisca that renowned Bohemian Captain hearing of them with a selected Band of Soldiers entered their Fools Paradise and put them all to the Sword An. Dom. 1416 The same pretence to bring men to Paradise though in a different way was once practised by Aladine a seditious Persian who inhabited a Valley in that Countrey which he fortified with a strong Castle Hither he brought all the lusty Youths and beautiful Maidens of the adjoyning Provinces The women were confined to their Chambers the men to prison where having endured much sorrow they were severely cast into dead sleeps and conveyed to the women where they were entertained with all the pleasures youth and lust could desire or a sensual mind affect To the eyes were presented curious Pictures and other costly Sights the Ears were charmed with melodious Musick the Nose delighted with odoriferous Smells the Taste satiated with costly Viands and the Touch satisfied with whatsoever might be pleasing unto it nothing was wanting which a sensual appetite could desire to enjoy Having lived in this happiness a whole day they were in a like sleep conveyed to their Irons Then would Aladine come unto them and inform them how they had been in Paradise in which place it was in his power to seat them eternally and which he would do if they would hazard their lives in his Quarrels They poor souls thinking all to be real swore to perform whatsoever he requested whereupon he destinated them to the massacre of such Princes as he had a mind to be rid out of the way which for the hopes of this Paradise they willingly put in execution refusing no dangers to be there the sooner One of these was he who so desperately wounded our King Edward the first when he was in his Wars in the Holy Land Qu. Who was the most notorious Heretick of these latter times An. One David George born at Delft in Holland who called himself King and Christ immortal He fled with his wife and children Anno 1544 to Basil where he divulged his doctrine the chief heads whereof were 1. That the Law and the Gospel were unprofitable for the attaining of Heaven but his doctrine able to save such as received it 2. That he was the true Christ and Messias 3. That he had been till that present kept in a place unknown to the Saints And fourthly that he was not to restore the house of Israel by death or tribulation but by the love and grace of the Spirit He died in the year 1556. and three years after his doctrine was by them of Basil condemned his Goods confiscated and his bones taken up and burned He bound his disciples to three things 1. To conceal his name 2. Not to reveal of what condition he had been And thirdly Not to discover the Articles of his doctrine to any man in Basil Thus every age produces Hereticks Who against Christ and true Religion kicks Qu. From whence had the Sect of the Anabaptists their first original An. From Germany about the year 1527. being very ripe in the Province of Helvetia where one of them in the presence of his Father and Mother cut off his brothers head and said according to the humour of that Sect who boast much of dreams visions and enthusiasms that God had commanded him to do it Since which time this Sect like a pernicious infection hath spread it self into many Countries having been very baneful to England in our late uncivil wars I might instance many examples more of our late Schismaticks as of the Ranters Fifth-Monarchy-men c. but we will now turn our pen to other matters Qu. What women of all others are most fruitful An. Beggars wives that of all others one would think should be most barren Qu. What is mans ingress and egress in this world An. He is born head-long into this world and carried to the grave with his feet foremost of which one thus writes Nature which head-long into life did throng us With our feet forwards to our grave doth bring us What is less ours than this our borrowed breath We stumble into life we go to death Qu. What is that State comparable unto wherein is most Nobles and Gentry and the Husbandmen are made their meer drudges An. Sir Francis Bacon in his History of Henry the Seventh likens them to Coppice-woods in which if you let them grow too thick in the stadles they run to bushes or briars and have little clean under-wood This may be evinced by the Countrey of France which is very numerous of Nobles and Gentry but the poor Peasants kept in

permanent His handy work doth tell Day unto day doth teach And of the Lord do preach His wondrous works relating Night unto night doth show That every one might know His wisdom them creating There is no speech nor Land But this doth understand Though it far distant lyes Yet doth it heart the noise Acknowledging the voice And Language of the Skyes c. Qu. At what time of the year according to the opinion of many men was the world created An. That the world began in Autumn is of late the opinion of many both Divines and Chronologers And yet of old the ancient Fathers Eusebius Basil Athanasius Ambrose Cyril of Jerusalem Augustine Nazianzen Damascen Bede Psidore c. were persuaded otherwise Yea in a Synod holden in Palestine by Theophilus Bishop of Caesarea it was agreed that the World was made in the Spring Nor is that but a great question betwixt two furious Rabbins for though the Rabbins for the most part be for Autumn yet R. Josua maintains the contrary against Eleazer another great Rabbi who contends for Autumn True it is that the year of Jubilee began alwayes at Autumn howbeit the first month of the year was to be reckoned from the Spring which is as Moses saith to the Israelites Ezod 12. 2. This shall be to you the beginning of Months as if he had said though whilst you were in Aegypt you followed another reckoning yet it was divers from that which ye had at the first for this is to you the beginning of months or the natural head of the year Nor did the Chaldeans with whom Abrabam lived a long time reckon otherwise And successively since Astrologers have accounted the revolutions of the world from the vernal Equinox at the Suns entrance into the first scruple of Aries Translated out of Manilius Lib. 4. ALl Animals that be do groveling lye Or in the Earth the Water or the Sky One rest one sence one belly like in all Which they communicate in general But man consists of soul and body linkt Of Councils capable of voice distinct He into natural causes doth inspect And knows what to devise how to direct Into the world he Arts and science brings And searcheth out the hidden birth of things The unplow'd earth he to his will subdues And all it brings forth he knows how to use The untam'd Beasts he doth at pleasure bind He in the Seas untroden paths doth find He only stands with an erected brest As the sole Victor over all the rest His Star-like eyes into the Stars inquire The Heavens themselves he scales if he desire He seeks out Jove his thoughts will not be ty'd The Stars from him in vain themselves do hide He not content to look them in the faces Ransacks their Houses there most secret places This is the scope of mans all prying mind Himself he hopes amongst the Stars to find Of the unfortunate and fatal Days in the Year THe ancient Astronomers have observ'd certain days in every month to be held very fatal and unfortunate in which they accounted it ominous to begin or undertake any matter which days be as follow January the 1 2 4 5 10 15 17 and 19 February the 8 10 and 17. March the 15 16 and 19. April the 16 and 21. May the 7 11 and 20. June the 4 and 7. July the 15 and 20. August the 19 and 20. September the 6 and 7. October the 5. November the 15 and 19. December the 6 7 and 9. Also they will have in every change of the Moon two unfortunate days in which they advise no man to begin any work or undertake any journey because it shall come to no good end Which days be these In Jan. the 3 and 4 days of the new Moon In February 5 and 7 In March 6 and 7. In April 5 and 8. In May 8 and 9. In June 5 and 15. In July 3 and 13. In August 8 and 13. In September 8 and 13. In October 5 and 12. In November 5 and 9. In December 3 and 13. Others there be which note out of the whole year six most unfortunate days above all other wherein they advise no man to bleed or take any drink because the effects of the Constellation work mightily to death and in other respects they be right unfortunate which days be these January the 3. April the 30. July the 1. August the 1. October the 2. December the 30. Others again there be which observe three dangerous Mundays to begin any business fall sick or undertake any journey viz. First Munday in April on which day Cain was born and his Brother 6 bel slain Second Munday in August on which day Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed 31 of December on which day Jadas was born that betrayed Christ Likewise throughout England the 28 of December being Innocents day is called Childermas or Cros●-day and is so accounted every week Moreover there be certain unfortunate and bad days in the year called Dog-Days which be very prejudicial to mans health they begin the 19 day of July and end the 27 of August the malignity of which days Pliny reporteth Lib Chap 40. of his Natural History Exact rules to find out the beginning and ending of the Terms with the number of their Returns HIllary Term begins always the 23 of January and ends February the 12 and hath four Returns Easter Term begins always on the Wednesday fortnight after Easter ends the Munday after Ascension day and hath five Returns Trinity Term begins always the Fryday after Trinity and ends the Wednesday fortnight after and hath four Returns Michaelmas Term begins October the 23. and ends November the 21. and hath six Returns Note that the Exchequer opens 8 days before any Term begins except Trinity Term before which it opens only 4 days Of Weights and Measures commonly used in England THe most common Weight used in England are Troy and Avoirdupois by the first is weighed Wheat Bread Gold Silver c. which Troy-weight contains in every pound twelve ounces every ounce twenty penny weight and every penny weight twenty four grains whereby a mark weight ariseth just to eighty ounces By the second and more common weight of Avoirdupois is weighed all kind of Grocery ware Physical drugs and gross wares as Rosin Pitch Hemp c. and all Iron Copper Tin or other metals this weight hath sixteen ounces to the pound and is divided into grains scruples drams and ounces so that one pound Avoirdupois contains 16 ounces 128 drams 384 scruples and 7680 grains How Ale and Beer it measured These two sorts of Liquors are measured by pints quarts pottles gallons firkins kilderkins and barrels so that a barrel of Beer contains two kilderkins four Firkins thirty six gallons seventy two pottles 144 quarts and 282 pints A Barrel of Ale is two kilderkins four firkins thirty two gallons sixty four pottles 128 quarts and 256 pints so then the Barrel of Ale is less than the Barrel of Beer